Designing tools
Snowball blocks in the corners
Intertwined block through the middle
Designing Quilt Patterns
Now that the blocks have been created
for the What’s Good for the Gal is Good
for the Guy quilt challenge, I'll back up a
bit and explain how I came up with the
design for this quilt. Designing the “challenge” quilt was definitely a challenge. It
took time to figure out what it was going
to look like, which is part of the fun of
designing quilt patterns.
Because the person for whom I designed the quilt has a logical thinking
mind, likes engineering, and the double
helix, I figured it should be a geometrical
design with several different shapes in it.
But, they all needed to blend together to
form a cohesive and eye pleasing design.
There are many different kinds of software available to help us create designs.
Pfaff has one called 5D QuiltDesign Creator. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a copy,
so I decided to stick with the good old
standby of paper, pencil, pencil crayons,
and eraser to create my design.
Designing on Paper
I have my blocks designed and, now, it’s
just a matter of deciding where to put
them in the quilt. I h